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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
I liked this alot. Fast paced, interesting characters- hopefully they will give more of characters backstories during book 2. Overall the concept was really cool.
4.5 stars - I loved this book. Started off confused because you feel like you are just dropped into the story, but more of the history of the land and the people are revealed over time. Some of the bigger revelations you discover when Deka does. Definitely looking forward to book 2.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I will admit it was rough to get into due to the way women are portrayed and treated in this world. I kept waiting for the Warrior part to kick in. Once it did, I could NOT put it down. Stick with it, it's worth the wait!
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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Oooh yall, here she go again wit the fantasy again this gone be another one- WHAT?! FIVE!? What the hail?!
Yes ma'am five across the board. I do not know where this book came from! Where has it been all of my life. I finished it yesterday and I still do not know what to say about it. This baby gave me everythang! EV. ER. Y. THAAANG. It gave me looks, this cover. Im still thinking about the beauty in this cover. It gave me not one well built character, but a plethora. I got a secondary love story which is always amazing to me in action. I dont need you to lovey dovey it up for me. It gave me a journey, an adventure. It gave me culture without trying to make me study. It gave me the perfect narrator that distinguished everyone perfectly, all and I mean ALL accents. Crushed it. I wanted more. I need more. Thankfully there is a second in this series. Must pick it up!
In the book we're flowing Deka. She started as this innocent little meek, subsevient and what she became. Yall! When I got to the actual training and what not honestly for me this was something I would picture as a prequel or background into how the Dora Milaje are formed. If it hadnt had Death Shrieks. I would swear this is the training route and book to give me a glimpse in the life.
All in all I just frigging loved this book. I need to clear this TBR so I can read it again. I do not care π₯Ί It was so good.
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β(5/5)
πππ«π«ππππ ππ² : πβππ¦ππ πππππ
Oooh yall, here she go again wit the fantasy again this gone be another one- WHAT?! FIVE!? What the hail?!
Yes ma'am five across the board. I do not know where this book came from! Where has it been all of my life. I finished it yesterday and I still do not know what to say about it. This baby gave me everythang! EV. ER. Y. THAAANG. It gave me looks, this cover. Im still thinking about the beauty in this cover. It gave me not one well built character, but a plethora. I got a secondary love story which is always amazing to me in action. I dont need you to lovey dovey it up for me. It gave me a journey, an adventure. It gave me culture without trying to make me study. It gave me the perfect narrator that distinguished everyone perfectly, all and I mean ALL accents. Crushed it. I wanted more. I need more. Thankfully there is a second in this series. Must pick it up!
In the book we're flowing Deka. She started as this innocent little meek, subsevient and what she became. Yall! When I got to the actual training and what not honestly for me this was something I would picture as a prequel or background into how the Dora Milaje are formed. If it hadnt had Death Shrieks. I would swear this is the training route and book to give me a glimpse in the life.
All in all I just frigging loved this book. I need to clear this TBR so I can read it again. I do not care π₯Ί It was so good.
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This ended up not being for me, but as with all reviews, ymmv. I want to praise Ms. Forna for emphasizing the female friendship and sisterhood in here, and for being willing to go there at first with the level of gore and misogyny and looking at oppression.
Overall, though, this suffers from having just too much going on. After a certain point, what were in the text supposed to be major revelations had me just nodding and not feeling really impacted. Part of it is because it feels almost like an outline for a movie rather than a first person pov, and that may be Ms. Fornaβs training showing and the fact that itβs her first book. But this also plays into classic YA tropes so much that itβs very easy to see whatβs coming next, to the point that if you took a shot for how clearly each trope is telegraphed youβd possibly get alcohol poisoning. Because thereβs so much stuffed in here, the main character comes off as unobservant and has to automatically accept everything for the next clearly telegraphed plot point to happen. That this becomes a running joke in their friend group doesnβt help much.
This was also sold to me as being a West African based mythos, but thereβs what feels like a too convenient βpeople from X cardinal direction look like Europeans, Asians, Africansβ, etc nation building going on that it feels like sheβs trying to cast for a future movie already. Slow your roll. It also plays too much into the gender binary for my taste, with everyone being generically Hollywood heteronormative, but also tries to have it both ways with βI love my female BFF but I must kiss the male leadβ.
A lot of my issues feel like first book syndrome that will hopefully be ironed out by the other two books in what is apparently a trilogy, and from more experience in general. Hopefully the trilogy goes more interesting places.
Overall, though, this suffers from having just too much going on. After a certain point, what were in the text supposed to be major revelations had me just nodding and not feeling really impacted. Part of it is because it feels almost like an outline for a movie rather than a first person pov, and that may be Ms. Fornaβs training showing and the fact that itβs her first book. But this also plays into classic YA tropes so much that itβs very easy to see whatβs coming next, to the point that if you took a shot for how clearly each trope is telegraphed youβd possibly get alcohol poisoning. Because thereβs so much stuffed in here, the main character comes off as unobservant and has to automatically accept everything for the next clearly telegraphed plot point to happen. That this becomes a running joke in their friend group doesnβt help much.
This was also sold to me as being a West African based mythos, but thereβs what feels like a too convenient βpeople from X cardinal direction look like Europeans, Asians, Africansβ, etc nation building going on that it feels like sheβs trying to cast for a future movie already. Slow your roll. It also plays too much into the gender binary for my taste, with everyone being generically Hollywood heteronormative, but also tries to have it both ways with βI love my female BFF but I must kiss the male leadβ.
A lot of my issues feel like first book syndrome that will hopefully be ironed out by the other two books in what is apparently a trilogy, and from more experience in general. Hopefully the trilogy goes more interesting places.
Read this a few years ago and forgot literally everything hahaha. Glad I got to experience it for the first time all over again.